The National Park Service said the two were from Wisconsin and had gotten lost while hiking
A 52-year-old Wisconsin man and his 23-year-old daughter were found dead after they got lost hiking in Utah’s Canyonlands National Park amid triple-digit temperatures.
The National Park Service (NPS) said in a press release that authorities received a 911 text from someone at the Island in the Sky district of the park on Friday, July 12,
“National Park Service rangers and Bureau of Land Management Moab District Helitack personnel responded and initiated a search operation,” authorities wrote. “When they were located, the two individuals were already deceased.”
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According to the NPS, the two individuals — who were only identified as being from Green Bay, Wisconsin — were “hiking on the Syncline Trail, gotten lost, and run out of water.”
The temperature at the time of the incident was over 100 degrees, the NPS said.
The NPS said that it and the San Juan County Sheriff’s Office are investigating the matter. When contacted by PEOPLE, park authorities had no additional information to add, but noted that next of kin were notified before the news release was published.
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